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 Jemima, like her sister Louisa, remained single. She was pious and both wealthy and generous enough to leave £200 to set up a charity, ‘The Prior Gift’. This Gift contributed to the salary of the verger at the Holy Trinity Church, Shirley, Southampton, as well for an annual distribution of food tokens to 36 ‘deserving poor’.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8, p.104.)) Faced with large scale poverty, philanthropists in the Victorian age normally restricted aid to those considered ‘deserving’, that is, poor through no fault of their own and living blameless lives. The latter requirement alone substantially reduced the call on philanthropists’ purses!\\ Jemima, like her sister Louisa, remained single. She was pious and both wealthy and generous enough to leave £200 to set up a charity, ‘The Prior Gift’. This Gift contributed to the salary of the verger at the Holy Trinity Church, Shirley, Southampton, as well for an annual distribution of food tokens to 36 ‘deserving poor’.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8, p.104.)) Faced with large scale poverty, philanthropists in the Victorian age normally restricted aid to those considered ‘deserving’, that is, poor through no fault of their own and living blameless lives. The latter requirement alone substantially reduced the call on philanthropists’ purses!\\
 See photo taken by Andrew Darbyshire at Southampton church, Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8. pp.59,60. https://brisbanehistorywest.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/08-a-fair-slice-of-st-lucia-thomas-lodge-murray-prior.pdf\\ See photo taken by Andrew Darbyshire at Southampton church, Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8. pp.59,60. https://brisbanehistorywest.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/08-a-fair-slice-of-st-lucia-thomas-lodge-murray-prior.pdf\\
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-====== Louisa Prior/Murray Prior ====== 
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-These three photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album, labelled ‘Aunt Louisa’ and 'Aunt Louisa M.P’.((Provenance: J. Godden)) The second photo has the inscription on the back ‘For Morres[?] with Aunt Louisa's Love’. Judging from Louisa's large [[wp>Crinoline]], the photos were taken in the mid-nineteenth century.\\ 
-Louisa was christened on 22 January 1817 by the Forces chaplain: this fits in with her being born in [[wp>Boulogne-sur-Mer|Boulogne, France.]]((Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d., p.6.)) She was baptised again two years later at Wells cathedral.((QJO, Praed papers, 10/12/50))\\   
-In 1863, Louisa lived at 18 Oxford Terrace, St Peters, Islington, London; by 1882 (when her brother visited her) she lived in the suburb of Balham in south London.((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry.)) She apparently later lived with her sister Jemima at Howden Lodge, 14 Clarendon Road, Southsea.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8.))\\ 
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-Middle-class women were expected to play the piano and Louisa was no exception. Some of her sheet music has survived, so we can imagine her at her piano playing these Verdi variations. {{:louisa_music_enhanced.jpg?250|}}((Provenance: T.A. & M.T.M-P))